Archaeology Profile

Archaeology Profile : G. Karcich
gkarcich@durham.net

Experience DNA and faunal laboratory work, site field work, and writing of reports and publications.

Lab and Site Work

Ancient DNA Analysis:
     Molecular Anthropology Laboratory, Binghamton University, Binghamton, New York, 2004-2005
     - Current research work examing Ancient DNA of Great Lakes prehistoric populations

     Ancient DNA Internship, Lakehead University, Thunder Bay,Ontario, 2002
     - Laboratory techniques in extraction and amplification of nuclear and mitochondrial DNA.

Human & Faunal Skeletal Diagnosis:
Laboratory Methods in Forensic Anthropology, Mercyhurst Archaeological Institute, Erie, Pennsylvania, 1996

     Courses: Comparative Primate Anatomy, State University of New York at Buffalo, 2003
                    Advanced Human Osteology, Department of Anthropology,Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., 2001
                    Faunal Osteology, Howard Savage Faunal Archaeo-Osteology Laboratory, University of Toronto, 1981

Archaeological Site Work
     Cactus Hill, Virginia, 2002 (Clovis and Pre-Clovis cultural horizons)
     Fort Rouille, Toronto, Ontario, 1984 (French colonial period, 1750-1759)
     Saugeen River, Grand Bend, Ontario, 1979 (Middle Woodland, Saugeen Focus Site) ef

Archaeological Site Visits
     Cache Point, Northwest Territories, 1999 (12th Century Thule cultural horizon)

Research Papers & Publications

(2006) DNA Evidence for a Middle Woodland Algonquian Population: mtDNA analysis from the Donaldson Site, Ontario
Grant Karcich, Kay Grennan, D.Andrew Merriwether. Presented at the Annual Conference of the Canadian Association
of Physical Anthropology (L'Association Canadienne D'Anthropologie Physique), Trent University,
Peterborough, Ontario

(2003) mtDNA analysis of Archaic & Woodland Populations and its implications for Algonquian and Iroquoian Origins.
Presented at the 36th Annual Conference of the Canadian Archaeological Association
(Association canadienne d’archéologie), Macmaster, Hamilton, Ontario

(2001) Reliability of craniometric biological distance in the study of modern humans from the Late Pleistocene
and Holocene . A review of craniometric and mitochondrial DNA studies for Late Pleistocene and Holocene populations.

(1998) Atlas of Early Man: from the origins of the genus Homo to the spread of agriculture.
An atlas of the geographic distribution of hominid fossil finds and their related archeological tool industries.

Education

Master of Art, Anthropology State University of New York at Buffalo, 2003

Master of Library & Information Science University of Western Ontario, 1986

Bachelor of Education University of Toronto, 1981

Bachelor of Art, Anthropology University of Toronto, 1978